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Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic ...Show more
Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrou ...Show more
Here on Earth : An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: vert good
"We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature - of our true abilities and of our history - is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our minds - a civilisation which is transforming our Earth. We are master ...Show more
Jiggliest Jellyfish by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
$26.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Jiggliest Jellyfish is the brilliant new book in a series spotlighting the most fascinating creatures around the world, from real-life explorer Tim Flannery! You might think that there’s not much to jellyfish, but this book will make you think again. Did you know that jellyfish can thrive in waters that ...Show more
Life & Adventures Of William Buckley by John Morgan; Tim Flannery (ed.)
$25.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
'At 2.00 PM on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by John Batman at indented Head near Geelong . he was six foot five and seven-eighths inches tall (198cm) in his bare feet. Though clearly a European, and "well proportioned with an erect military gait" the visitor spoke no ...Show more
Life And Adventures 1776-1801 - Text Classics by Nicol John And Flannery Tim
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Text Classics
"At length, almost to our sorrow, we made the land upon the 3rd of June 1790, just one year all but one day from our leaving the river. We landed all our convicts safe." First published in 1822, this is the extraordinary story of John Nicol, a sailor who circled the globe twice, fought Napoleon's navy, ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: near fine
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more
Life and Adventures William Buckley: Text Classics by Tim Flannery, William Buckley
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In 1803 the convict William Buckley, a former soldier, escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, near Sorrento on Port Phillip Bay. For three decades the 'wild white man' lived with Aborigines around the bay, before giving himself up in 1835. First published in 1852, The Life and Adventure ...Show more
QUARTERLY ESSAY 9 BEAUTIFUL LIES by Tim Flannery; Peter Craven (Editor)
$11.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the first Quarterly Essayof 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold d ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 31 - Now or Neve r: A Sustainable Future for Australia? by Tim Flannery
$15.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth's regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge? This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the twe ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 48: After the Future by Tim Flannery; George Brandis (Contribution by); Chris Uhlmann (Contribution by); Mark Latham (Contribution by); Judith Brett (Contribution by); Jack Waterford (Contribution by); David Marr (Contribution by); Rachel Nolan (Contribution by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
When it comes to the natural world, Australia is home to a disproportionately large share of the world's riches. That means we Australians are caretakers of a unique natural heritage in a land which tolerates few mistakes. So how are we doing?In Quarterly Essay 48 Tim Flannery says: we're often failing ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around The World by Slocum Joshua, Tim Flannery
$24.00 AUD
Category: Travel
It remains one of the most thrilling and entertaining travel narratives of all time. Slocum writes of dangers and delights in encounters with Moorish pirates and Juan Fernandez islanders, tempests and languid seas, sharks and flying fish. In 1877, eighteen years before Slocum weighed anchor on his 74,00 ...Show more